Tim Wheeler

Tim Wheeler has written over 10,000 news reports, exposés, op-eds, and commentaries in his half-century as a journalist for the Worker, Daily World, and People’s World. Tim also served as editor of the People’s Weekly World newspaper. His book News for the 99% is a selection of his writings over the last 50 years representing a history of the nation and the world from a working-class point of view. After residing in Baltimore for many years, Tim now lives in Sequim, Wash.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler

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MoveOn.org: “Shadow network” seeks to buy election
October 14, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
Shadowy groups are flooding Washington State with anonymous corporate cash to buy ads smearing incumbent Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, MoveOn charged.
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Oct. 2 ‘One Nation’ rally calls for jobs
October 3, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
Protesters rallied at the Lincoln Memorial Oct. 2 to cheer calls for jobs, union rights and a massive vote against corporate greed and hate in the Nov. 2 midterm elections.
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Saving Bragg Nature Center: Another Obama success story
September 29, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
The construction crews were hired thanks to a $3 million grant under President Obama's economic stimulus package - one of hundreds of projects across the nation that are creating millions of jobs.
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Women senators offer bill to compensate Black farmers
September 24, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
WASHINGTON - Senators Kay Hagen and Blanche Lincoln unveiled their bill at a Capitol Hill rally following a march by Black farmers demanding compensation for decades of discrimination.
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Baltimore backs Oct. 2 march
September 21, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
The City Council has voted unanimously to endorse the October 2 One Nation Working Together march, and a local coalition is working to fill 100 buses.
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Primary season ends, here comes Nov. 2
September 16, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
WASHINGTON - The September 14 primary elections in seven states and the District of Columbia brought almost the end of the primary season - with only Hawaii's Sept. 18 primary yet to go - and the...
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Republicans “deaf ” to Black farmers’ $1.25 billion claim
September 9, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
WASHINGTON – Willie E. Adams, a founding member of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA), has been fighting U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) discrimination in denying Black farmers federal loans for as long as he has been a...
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Factory farms exposed in recall of half billion eggs
August 23, 2010 By Tim Wheeler
WASHINGTON---The recall of half a billion eggs blamed in a nationwide salmonella outbreak has pushed to the top of the Senate agenda enactment of a long-stalled bill to strengthen federal food safety enforcement.
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